Comments Thread For: 50 Cent Takes Aim at Former Friend Mayweather Jr.

[IMDAZED]

WTF are you talking about?

[Spoon23]

Lol. I'm.actually surprised by how much Floyd has taken the high road in this situation. What's funny is if it was him acting like this ppl would hate that too.

High road or ducking move? I say more like his usual ducking move more like it.

[ronnie_N.]

i can see it now:

"Floyd: Fight won't happen, Pacquiao has a promoter and is partner with Fitty, I'm my own man!"...

[mathed]

Damn, Floyd held back his money (prolly lost a huge sports bet and couldn't cover his end) and 50 slept with his girl and broke away from the "partnership" for revenge.

[anonymous2.0]

50's first problem: he has a stable of Name boxers - not great, big names, but names nonetheless. He can't pay them peanuts and he can't put them on Friday Night Fights, his stable is going to demand Showtime or HBO headliners or televised undercards. That's tough for a new promoter.

His next few problems are self inflicted: since he doesn't have a big enough stable to do an in house fight card, he's going to have to work with another promoter. Despite 50's financial success background, the fact is he started a boxing promotional company, got a lot of hype for it, and then dissolved and reformatted it without even putting on a single card. That's a red flag for any potential investors, promoters, venues, and boxers looking to sign. People want to do business with a stable company, not one that might change within the year.

Fact is, Caballero and Gamboa are both over 30 (not sure about Billy Dib). I see both Caballero and Gamboa going for another maybe 2-4 years before retiring. There's no rising contenders in 50's stable. TR and GPB both have rising stars that are going to excite both old and new fans and make all the more money within the next few years as the current fighters retire. Once 50's stable retires, he has....nobody.

There's no star. In a stable that small, there has to be a star. Probably the closest thing to a star is Billy Dib because he has an IBF title(right?)

I can easily see Oscar refusing to work or set unfair splits with 50 just to spite him just as easily as I can see Bob Arum using 50 and doing business with him to spite Floyd. Once 50 figures this out, I want someone with a camera to record his tirade. Shame too, I liked watching Caballero and Gamboa fight.

[JJRod]

So much for TMT taking over boxing.
Boxing promotion is a tough business. Just look at Shane Mosley promotions, Square Ring promotions, Vargas promotions, Hatton Promotions, and countless others. Soon 50 cent promotional company will fall by the wayside too.

Floyd knowing boxing the way he does was probably well aware of this and is the reason he stuck with Al Haymon and Golden Boy. I mean why ruin the relationship that has made you boxings highest earner?

[turnedup]

So much for TMT taking over boxing.
Boxing promotion is a tough business. Just look at Shane Mosley promotions, Square Ring promotions, Vargas promotions, Hatton Promotions, and countless others. Soon 50 cent promotional company will fall by the wayside too.

Floyd knowing boxing the way he does was probably well aware of this and is the reason he stuck with Al Haymon and Golden Boy. I mean why ruin the relationship that has made you boxings highest earner?

Floyd is Schaeffer and Ellerbe's puppet, as long as they say we'll guarantee you x amount he's with them..this much has been proven by Ellerbe's own assertion over the problem with 50cent. I am of the opinion that Ellerbe while intelligent as hell is no different than them creflo dollar preacher thieving mofo's..look how confident Oscar was he wasn't about to lose Mayweather..Ellerbe is getting GBP money on the side believe that..50cent is aligned with Duboef..he's good..has two fighters on ppv bouts alread within mere months..as long as he has one champion in his stable he'll have a ppv event to shove the others onto..Shane Mosley went after virtual unknowns because they'd sign whatever contract he put in front of them..Shane could easily go into his own pocket and sign some notable fighters but he won't..he's of the mind of making a star instead of buying one..which is fine but his most notable fighter is a chick..that says it all.

[Bullrider]

Put it this way,

Haymon will always do well on his own even without Floyd. Floyd on his own as a promoter is useless. When Floyd retires, Haymon will have no use for him.

Floyd with 50, plus TMT could have had a better chance of succeeding as opposed to being left on their own.

So Floyd better make enough money before leaving boxing.

[B.U.R.N.E.R]

put it this way,

haymon will always do well on his own even without floyd. Floyd on his own as a promoter is useless. When floyd retires, haymon will have no use for him.

Floyd with 50, plus tmt could have had a better chance of succeeding as opposed to being left on their own.

So floyd better make enough money before leaving boxing.

wtf ^^^^^^^

[JOM'S]

This is what I noticed after reading the short article. I mean come on, $1?

I think I would buy one of those 1$ jackets...